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.NET MAUI for C# Developers

By : Jesse Liberty, Rodrigo Juarez
3.7 (6)
Book Image

.NET MAUI for C# Developers

3.7 (6)
By: Jesse Liberty, Rodrigo Juarez

Overview of this book

While UI plays a pivotal role in retaining users in a highly competitive landscape, maintaining the same UI can be tricky if you use different languages for different platforms, leading to mismatches and un-synced pages. In this book, you'll see how .NET MAUI allows you to create a real-world application that will run natively on different platforms. By building on your C# experience, you’ll further learn to create beautiful and engaging UI using XAML, architect a solid app, and discover best practices for this Microsoft platform. The book starts with the fundamentals and quickly moves on to intermediate and advanced topics on laying out your pages, navigating between them, and adding controls to gather and display data. You’ll explore the key architectural pattern of Model-View-ViewModel: and ways to leverage it. You’ll also use xUnit and NSubstitute to create robust and reliable code. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to leverage .NET MAUI and create an API for your app to interact with a web frontend to the backend data using C#.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Getting Started
8
Part 2 – Intermediate Topics
12
Part 3 – Advanced Topics

Passing values from page to page

When navigating from one page to another, you’ll often want to pass in a value. There are a few ways to do this; here are the two most common:

  1. Using the url (?) syntax as you might with a URL to navigate to a page on the web
  2. Using navigation parameters with a dictionary

Passing values with the url (?) syntax

Let’s return to the Buddies page. Right now, the Button has a GoToDetailsCommand command. But the Details page needs to know which Buddy to show details about.

We’ll modify RelayCommand in ViewModel to pass in BuddyId. To make this work, we need a Buddy object (which will have the Id). However, Buddy is just one of the types of users of this program, so let’s start by defining the User type:

[ObservableObject]
public partial class User
{
    [ObservableProperty]
    private string name;
    [ObservableProperty]  [1]
 ...